Precious Metals Videos

The IH15a from Across International is a laboratory sized induction heater suited to melting, welding and surface heating of materials. It features a very compact size and digital controller that can control heating rate, soak time and cooling rate. It can be supplied with crucibles such as graphite or silica crucibles in alumina jackets.

This video from The Great Recovery, shows Dr Hywel Jones from the Materials and Engineering Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University smashing the mobile phones in order to raise awareness of the internal components of mobile phones and the use of the elements.

A video showing the process and manufacturing of man made diamonds. The producer emulate the nature process of how diamonds are made in the environment. Extreme heat is used to form the diamond from the carb

This video demonstrates the Innov-X range of handheld x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzers and their important application for scrap metal recycling. The portable device can determine chemical composition of metals in just seconds. It also has an in-built database permitting alloy identification.

A video showing hardness testing being performed on a a tungsten ring and compared with hardness testing with platinum, titanium, white gold rings. Please remember not to try this on your wedding rings !!

In this video John Kelly and Dan Soisson from Spectro Analytical demonstrate the xSORT handheld x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer. This portable unit is ideally suited to rapid throughput metals sorting and identification such as in scrap yards and stainless steel warehousing.

This video detail the proper setup for taking Raman measurements using the Ocean Optics Q65000 Spectrometer. Once setup is complete it takes you through the steps of performing a basic Raman measurement using a Ramen spectrometer.

Ever been asked what materials science is? If so, just send people to this apage for the answer. An interesting compilation put together by the staff and students at the Department of Materials Science at UNSW.

The Bruker AXS Tracer Turbo SD, incorporating the silicon drift detector is demonstrated. It can analyze both ferrous alloys and light alloys, with this demomstration including a stainless steel and aluminium aloy. The instrument is suited to metals analysis, such as scrap metal sorting.

The iPhone app from AZoM.com gives you the world of materials in the palm of your hand. It offers you a totally portable way to locate materials solutions, suppliers and products as well as providing you with the latest materials news, conveniently broken down into categories to suit various industry sectors.

A video clip from Finmetal showing the essential use of nickel in stainless steel, the diverse applications nickel has on our everyday life and nickel being one of the essential metal for industrial expansion in today's modern countries.

The Baseline Series 9200 PetroAlert® gas analyzer incorporates the selective detection of a gas chromatograph (GC) with the constant monitoring abilities of a total hydrocarbon analyzer (THA) in a single, sensitive, compact and stable instrument.